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In Reply to: RE: Solid wood cabinet posted by Bill the K on May 21, 2015 at 19:34:57
WAF isn't going to matter when the solid rosewood box pulls itself apart.
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I have plans to use Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Sissoo) which is long lasting and very strong
Cheers
Bill
Strength is not the issue. Solid hardwoods move around a lot with varying environmental conditions. Your solid hardwood speaker box will literally rip itself apart in a matter of a few months.
If you have to have rosewood hardwood, use 1" plywood to construct the box, the veneer over with 1/2" rosewood.
Very interesting and informative. I think I will avoid all complications and use Birch Plywood or MDF and Rosewood veneer it. Wife would say 'Ah, its only veneer'. She will point to the Rosewood furniture, especially to a little 200 year old chair in black rosewood, uncracked. But sound is more important than WAF. Or is it?
Cheers
Bill
It's a lot easier than veneering it afterward. Better lumber yards will have it.
My brother built a bunch of Straight 8 cabinets with various exotic woods using veneered plywood. I wish I had some of the pics handy, but here's one of my pair in a black laquer.
The trick to not using veneer tape was to join a ripped down 1x1 of solid wood to both sides of the side panels. The top was made of joined pieces of either 4x or 6x material. It gives strength to the edges and then you can quarter round it for a clean look.
-Rod
That speaker looks great. Veneering is as good as the solid wood. Thanks.
Cheers
Bill
Another issue is stuffing or not. You can get a very lively speaker if you forego the stuffing. It can make a huge difference. It just depends what you like to hear in a speaker. Look at this (Red 100) one to get some idea.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
Chairs and other furniture are built using techniques that allow for the expansion and contraction of the wood. With a speaker that must have airtight joints it's a much more difficult proposition. I'll use solid wood, but never with wider than 1x8 nominal boards, beyond that the expansion/contraction issues are too difficult to overcome. So bookshelves, OK, but that's about it.
A chair has much smaller glue joints. If a leg twists three degrees on its length, that doesn't bother the glue joint much up where the seat is. If a side panel of a speaker box twists three degrees, it pops apart.
If you look at similar furniture from that time period, specifically dressers, I would bet that you'd find lots of exotic veneer over a more stable wood substrate.
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